Currently only [[R5000]] based IP32 (O2) systems are well supported in Linux. Framebuffer works. Audio mostly works - recording possibly not completed. Some experimental work has been done on the VICE engine: [http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/vice/ Experimental patches for using VICE].

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Currently only [[R5000]] based IP32 (O2) systems are well supported in Linux. Framebuffer works, but to get a usable X you need a small patch. Experimental patches for audio exists and did work for a while, until the kernel was made 64-bit only for IP32.

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SCSI works ok, and booting from a harddrive works using [[arcboot]].

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Some experimental work has been done on the VICE engine: [http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/vice/ Experimental patches for using VICE].

==R1x000 support==

==R1x000 support==

Revision as of 14:09, 25 November 2004

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General

The O2 is Silicon Graphics's successor of the Indy workstation. It comes in several versions with R5000, RM7000, R10000 or R12000 processors.

The O2 Workstation is based around the CRIME, MACE, VICE, and GBE ASICs. CRIME ASIC is the main system ASIC which interfaces the MIPS cpu, memory system and the I/O system in the MACE ASIC. CRIME ASIC also contains the 3D gfx rendering engine which renders to main system memory -- part of which is used as the frame buffer which is DMA'ed to a video connector using the GBE ASIC. A MACE chip is used to provide legacy device support (serial, parallel, video, RTC...). VICE ASIC is used to process video streams and images stored in memory.

Support

Currently only R5000 based IP32 (O2) systems are well supported in Linux. Framebuffer works, but to get a usable X you need a small patch. Experimental patches for audio exists and did work for a while, until the kernel was made 64-bit only for IP32.
SCSI works ok, and booting from a harddrive works using arcboot.